Speaking of Shandong's most "depressed" county, it is none other than Qingzhou, Qingzhou is now a county-level city managed by Weifang, With a total area of 1563.8 square kilometers, Qingzhou ranks sixth among the 12 counties and municipalities in Weifang, with 4 streets and 8 towns under its jurisdiction, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Qingzhou City is 960882 people, ranking third among the 12 counties and municipalities in Weifang, second only to Shouguang and Zhucheng. Qingzhou is a national civilized city, in 2013 by the State Council as a national historical and cultural city, Qingzhou is also a regular visitor to the top 100 counties in the country, the above content is very dazzling if placed in ordinary counties, but as Qingzhou is quite "depressed", because the ancient Qingzhou is too famous, it is the first state in the world.
Map of Qingzhou
Let's take stock of the historical and cultural city of Qingzhou:
First, the origin of Qingzhou
The name of Qingzhou comes from the Book of Shang: Dongyi is beautiful, and Haidai is only Qingzhou. Folklore after the great Yu ruled the water, according to the direction of the mountains and rivers will be divided into nine states, respectively: after the great Yu ruled the water, according to the direction of the mountains and rivers, the whole country was divided into nine regions, the name "Kyushu", Kyushu is Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, so jiuzhou has become synonymous with China, Qingzhou is the birthplace of "Dongyi culture", this sentence means that Qingzhou is surrounded by mountains and seas, beautiful scenery, which is also the origin of the name of Qingzhou.
Second, the glorious history of Qingzhou
Qingzhou is the first of the ancient nine prefectures, with a history of 12 years of national capital, 1065 provincial capital, 1606 fuya, and 2216 county rule. Qingzhou has successively existed six ancient cities, namely the Han Dynasty's Guangxian City, Guanggu City, Dongyang City, Nanyang City, Dongguan Weizi City and Manchu Flag City, is it not powerful!
Qingzhou really stepped onto the stage of history during the Western Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up the Qingzhou Thorn History Department in the fifth year of the Yuan Dynasty, stationed in Guangxian (Guangxian is now Qingzhou), called Qingzhou City. Let's first understand what is the Thorn History Department, the Thorn History Department refers to the Factual History Department of Emperor Wu of Han in order to strengthen the control of the central government over the localities, in addition to the seven counties near the Beijing Division, the whole country is divided into thirteen supervision areas, known as the Thirteen Thorn History Department, the Thorn History Department was used after Emperor Wu of Han and the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the jurisdiction area of the Qingzhou Thorn History Department was:
Qingzhou Thorn History Department
As can be seen from the above figure, the jurisdiction area of the Qingzhou Thorn History Department basically includes the current eastern and northern shandong regions, and the area under its jurisdiction is very large, and it is also an important place that must be contested by soldiers. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou surrendered unconditionally to Cao Cao. After the surrender, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, including their families, totaled more than one million people, of which tens of thousands of strong and healthy people were organized by Cao Cao as "Qingzhou soldiers" with relative independence, and were not put into production by the army and used as rear supplies.
Qingzhou Bing
During the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, Qingzhou was more brilliant, during the Wei Period, Guangxian Was abolished, and Guanggu City was set up in the current city of Qingzhou, and in 399 Murong De was based on Guanggu and set the capital of the Southern Yan State, and since then, Qingzhou has been the capital of the Southern Yan State (399-410) for twelve years, which is also the only place in Shandong as the capital of the dynasty, and it is also the highest moment in the history of Qingzhou.
Guanggu Castle
During the Sui Dynasty, Qingzhou was changed to Beihai County, which ruled Yidu, Linzi, Bochang, Shouguang, Linqu, Yingqiu, qiancheng, etc.
The Tang Dynasty changed Beihai County to Qingzhou, which had jurisdiction over Yidu, Linzi, Bochang, Linqu, Shouguang, Beihai, and Qiancheng. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Qingzhou ruled over six counties, namely Yidu, Shouguang, Linqu, Boxing, Qiancheng, and Linzi. The Jin Dynasty Yidu Prefecture ruled over Yidu, Linqu, Le'an, Shouguang, Boxing, Linzi and other counties. Qingzhou in the Yuan Dynasty ruled Over Yidu, Linzi, Linqu, and Muling. The seat of government was still in Yidu (present-day Qingzhou). Although the name of Qingzhou in the above dynasty will change, the administrative offices are all set in Yidu (the location of present-day Qingzhou). The Ming Dynasty established The Province of Zhongshu in Shandong, Yidu Road was changed to Qingzhou Prefecture, and the seat of governance was In Yidu (present-day Qingzhou), which was the provincial capital at that time, and later moved to Jinan Province.
Qingzhou Capital of the Ming Dynasty
Since then, Jinan has replaced Qingzhou as the political and military center of Shandong since the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the center of Shandong has been moved from Qingzhou to Jinan. Qingzhou Prefecture of the Qing Dynasty administered 11 counties, which was slightly smaller than that of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Fucun County was abolished, and Yidu County belonged to Jiaodong Province. After the establishment of the National Government in Nanjing, the abolition road was directly under shandong province. After the liberation of Qingzhou, the East China Bureau, the East China Military Region and the Shandong organs moved to Qingzhou, and Qingzhou once again became the political, economic, cultural and military center of Shandong. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, after several adjustments, it formed the present-day Qingzhou City, which was named Yidu County at that time. In March 1986, with the approval of the State Council, Yidu County was abolished and changed to Qingzhou City, which was managed by Weifang, and "Qingzhou" was once again displayed in front of the world with a new look.
Qingzhou is also the second most populous city in Shandong Province, second only to Cao County, with 34 ethnic minorities and 24,775 people, including 21,212 Hui and 2,712 Manchus, mainly living in urban areas and suburbs. As a famous historical and cultural city, Qingzhou also has many famous attractions, such as Qingzhou Ancient City, Yunmen Mountain, Museum, Yangtian Mountain, Huanghuaxi, etc., because of the unique natural environment, everywhere is a landscape, fascinating.
With the profound cultural heritage of "the first state in the world" and the spirit of hard work now, the future of Qingzhou will be even better.